Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yang, H.-J.
• Ding, Y.-Q.
• Deng, Y.-J.

Titel

Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis with lungs and liver involved

Ist Teil von

• Clinical and experimental dermatology, 2009-03, Vol.34 (2), p.183-185

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Summary We describe a 56‐year‐old man with a 2‐year history of papulonodules, pruritic and painful on palpation, on the head, trunk, limbs, buttocks and scrotum and a 1.5‐year history of rheumatoid arthritis‐like joint changes. Biopsies from the nodules on the head and left elbow revealed multinucleated giant cells with eosinophilic ‘ground‐glass’ cytoplasm. Computed tomography revealed that there were scattered nodules in the liver and both lungs. Biopsies taken from nodules in the right lung and liver were consistent with multicentric reticulohistiocytosis. The widely scattered cutaneous papulonodules and the generalized systemic involvement make this patient interesting, and the condition should be differentiated from other diseases in clinicopathological practice.